Account of an elastic trochar, constructed on a new principle, for tapping the hydrocele and abdomen / [John Andree].
- Andree, John, approximately 1740-approximately 1820
- Date:
- 1782
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Account of an elastic trochar, constructed on a new principle, for tapping the hydrocele and abdomen / [John Andree]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![t I« ] was formerly in ufej but the Trochar is juftly now preferred.” But Mr. Warner, in his Account of the Tefticles, their coats and difeafes, publifhed in 1779, recommends the pundure by a common Jmpofthume-Iancet; and adds, “ You will feldom fail of evacuating the contents of the tumor, in a very expedi¬ tious and effedual manner, without the af- fiftance of any other inftrument.” He con- Kr * „ * . • r > * \ --t ' t ' % eludes the fubjed, by adding—“ After this mode of operating, it fometimes happens, that a general inflammation attacks the parts, attended with fymptoms like thofe which fucceed the radical cure of the Hydro¬ cele.” Palfyn, in his Anatomie Chirurgicale, fays, “ La cure palliative coniifte si faire une pondion avec la Lancette, ou avec un Troicart, & gudit la maladie aux enfans fans rdidive, quand elle eft rdente, qu’on n’y laifle pas amalfer des eaax en trop grande](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792472_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
